754

This article is about the year 754. For the computer standard, see IEEE 754. For the CPU socket, see Socket 754.

Year 754 (DCCLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 754th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 754th year of the 1st millennium, the 54th year of the 8th century, and the 5th year of the 750s decade. The denomination 754 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century 8th century 9th century
Decades:	730s 740s 750s 760s 770s
Years:	751 752 753 754 755 756 757

754 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	754 DCCLIV
Ab urbe condita	1507
Armenian calendar	203 ԹՎ ՄԳ
Assyrian calendar	5504
Balinese saka calendar	675–676
Bengali calendar	161
Berber calendar	1704
Buddhist calendar	1298
Burmese calendar	116
Byzantine calendar	6262–6263
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3451 or 3244     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3452 or 3245
Coptic calendar	470–471
Discordian calendar	1920
Ethiopian calendar	746–747
Hebrew calendar	4514–4515
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	810–811
- Shaka Samvat	675–676
- Kali Yuga	3854–3855
Holocene calendar	10754
Iranian calendar	132–133
Islamic calendar	136–137
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-shōhō 6 (天平勝宝６年)
Javanese calendar	648–649
Julian calendar	754 DCCLIV
Korean calendar	3087
Minguo calendar	1158 before ROC 民前1158年
Nanakshahi calendar	−714
Seleucid era	1065/1066 AG
Thai solar calendar	1296–1297
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 880 or 499 or −273     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 881 or 500 or −272

The Iconoclasts, by Domenico Morelli

Events

By place

Europe

• July – Stephen II anoints Pepin's sons, Charles (later known as Charlemagne) and Carloman, consecrating them as patricians. At Quierzy he proclaims the Carolingian dynasty holy, and appeals for help against the Lombards. Finally, the Frankish nobles give their consent to a campaign in Lombardy.
• July 28 – Pope Stephen II re-consecrates Pepin III (the Short) as king of the Franks, at the Basilica of Saint-Denis outside Paris, bestowing upon him the additional title of Patricius of the Romans. This marks the first recorded crowning of a civil ruler by a pope.^[1][2] Pepin assumes the role of ordained protector of the Catholic Church.

• Summer – The Franks under Pepin III invade Italy, and defeat the Lombards under King Aistulf, in the Susa Valley (Piedmont). He enforces the terms, including cession of the Exarchate of Ravenna to Rome.
• The oldest document mentioning the city of Ferrara (Northern Italy) is from this year (approximate date).

Abbasid Caliphate

• June 10 – Caliph as-Saffah dies of smallpox after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his nominated heir and brother al-Mansur, as ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Abbasid caliph al-Mansur (r. 754–775)

• November – Abdallah ibn Ali, governor of Syria and uncle of as-Saffah, launches a claim for the caliphate, but is defeated by forces loyal to al-Mansur, under Abu Muslim, at Nisibis (modern Turkey).

Asia

• Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk, arrives in Nara, where he is welcomed by former emperor Shōmu and empress Kōmyō. During his visit Jianzhen introduces sugar to the Japanese court, using it to mask the flavors of foul-tasting herbal tea.
• A Tang census shows that 75% of the Chinese live north of the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River. The capital of Chang'an has a population of 2 million and more than 25 other cities have well over 500,000 citizens (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

• February – Council of Hieria: Emperor Constantine V summons a Christian council in the palace of Hieria in Constantinople. The council, under the presidency of Bishop Theodosius of Ephesus, supports the policy of Iconoclasm and condemning the use of religious images (icons) in the Byzantine Empire. Constantine increases the persecution of the monasteries; hundreds of monks and nuns are mutilated or put to death.
• June 5 – Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia, while reading the Scriptures to Christian converts. He is later buried in the Abbey of Fulda, entrusted to his Bavarian disciple Sturm.

Births

• Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Frankish queen and wife of Charlemagne (d. 783)
• Li Fan, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 811)

Deaths

Boniface

• June 5
  • Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary
  • Eoban, bishop of Utrecht
• June 10 – Abul Abbas al-Saffah, Muslim caliph
• August 17 – Carloman mayor of the palace of Austrasia and brother of Pepin III (The Short)
• Ansemund, Visigothic count
• Burchard, bishop of Würzburg (approximate date)
• Childeric III, king of the Franks (approximate date)
• Cui Hao, Chinese poet
• Hiltrud, duchess regent of Bavaria (b. 716)
• Li Linfu, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
• Rhodri Molwynog, king of Gwynedd (Wales)

References

1. Kazhdan (1991), p. 1600
2. Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). "Pope Stephen II". The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press.